BFC floodlights history

Re: Barnsley FC should have a page like this

the joke was lost it seems! we sold john to pompey and miraculously we suddenly had some money for floodlights...

see david geddes to birmingham = new ponty toilets
carl tiler to forest = new east stand
ashely ward to blackburn = new north stand

its the way things used to work i guess!!

 

I remember them going up

I was 9 years old and in Mrs Price's class at Doncaster Road Junior School. We looked out onto Oakwell, and we used to watch them being erected (and got a clip round the ear for doing so!).

That was the 1961/62 year.

Can't remember the game though.

 

Could it be Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic on Fri 9th Feb 62. Just guessing like because it seemed we started playing a few on a Friday which was unusal looking at the fixtures at that time.

 

This looks like the 1st league game underfloodlights. 2-2 draw our goal scorers were Oliver and Smillie.

 

Yep, that's the one. Just checked the manager's notes in the Greenock Morton friendly programme (14th February) and Johnny Steele makes reference to the Bournemouth game being the "first Friday night League match under floodlights".

As that was the first League game after the Bolton match that answers the original question. We did, however, play Grimsby at home in the FA Cup on Saturday 27th January. I don't have that programme or the Bournemouth one, so can't check what time that game kicked off. Unless it kicked off at lunchtime it will have been the first competitive match that we used the floodlights, judging by the fact it was played in January.

 

Not exactly what you asked but...

Barnsley were the last club to have floodlights actually outside the stadium, until the outer walls were built around them when the stadium was re-developed, FACT.

 

Saw this thread and did a bit of research. The first game under floodlights at Oakwell was against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday the 23rd of January, 1962. Barnsley won 2-0 with a goal In each half, the first coming from Tom Finney and the second from a Ken Oliver header. Attendance was around 12,000.

 

There still can't be many clubs left in the top divisions to have free-standing floodlights as most are now attached to the stands' roofs. Forest have two left on one side of the ground, or at least did last time I was in Nottingham a couple of years back. Have Peterborough still got proper floodlights?

 

Peterborough have 2 floodlights, the new stand has lights fixed to the front of the roof.

 

Wonder why we never went down the route of putting the floodlight on the east stand and removing 2 towers?